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Question 1

Since bees have about 33k genes, how many of those show expression differences between nursery and forager brains?

Answer 1

5.5k

Question 2

Where does unique queen bee pheromones get released?

Answer 2

Pheromones emitted by the mandibular gland of a queen

Question 3

Queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) inhibits and how?

Answer 3

Dopamine production in workers by altering the abundance of Amdop1.

Question 4

Homovanillyl alcohol (HVA) released from queen bees inhibit?

Answer 4

Dopamine production in works, the same as in QMP.

Question 5

Amdop1?

Answer 5

Dopamine receptor expression during development in bees

Question 6

If a queen is missing, a worker bee can do what as last resort?

Answer 6

Lay a bunch of haploid drone eggs since they have not been fertilized

Question 7

Direct contact with queen bees suppress of express ovaries in workers?

Answer 7

Suppress

Question 8

Are mandibular pheromones volatile?

Answer 8

Less volatile, more through physical contact.

Question 9

A sense of a queen initiates what type of hormone in workers?

Answer 9

Some of the workers start to develop queen mandibular pheromone and suppress ovary development in other workers. It becomes a chemical competition that suppress ovaries in sisters to be the one to lay eggs.

Question 10

How can worker bees sense the size of the colony?

Answer 10

By the strength of the mandibular pheromones from the single queen within the colony.